Hurricane Sandy is not yet imposing her will on our area the way the first forecasts suggested, so it's still a mystery what sort of impact the storm will have. It's a bit drizzly and windy now, but that's obviously just the early hints, and our village has already declared a state of emergency, which sets a tone. As I said yesterday, there's no reason to be particularly concerned for the BlueTower, as the worst we are likely to suffer in our location is a power outage (though, of course, that would impact my ability to update the site), and here's hoping that others in the path of the storm are equally secure, and that everyone manages to come through this relatively unscathed.

Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 30, 2012, 00:42:Wow, they are reporting 13 deaths in the US attributed to Sandy. That's surprising/disappointing given the forewarning we had.

eH, I am sure HUNDREDS died naturally in the area at the same time - 13 seems pretty low - sorry being so morbid.....but....really. It kind of puttered and wasn't the big thing everyone made it out to be - lets get something else on the news already....

Uh, tell that to NY/NJ. I'm looking at video of a few streets practically underwater. More than 3 million people without power across various states. Many eastern transit systems shut down. Might not be a big deal to Minnesota but it's a big deal on the eastern sea board.

No one said it was going to be apocalypse now for the whole country.

eh. They made it out to be a bigger deal - and it isn't as bad as they thought.